Lloyd Hughes Davies

Swansea University | SWAN · Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal Spain and the Americas

The translation of culture-bound expressions such as idioms, proverbs and similes can be a challenge even for professional translators who are expected to have an excellent command of the languages they work with, at least theoretically. Challenges arise when either the image or the meaning of the source language expression does not exist in the ta...

The translation of culture-bound expressions can be a challenge even for professional translators. This paper, therefore, explores the possibility of predicting the level of cultural competence needed in order to avoid translation errors by correlating cultural translation competence to vocabulary size. The results of our survey of Arabic professio...

The translation of culture-bound expressions can be a challenge even for professional translators. This paper explores the possibility of predicting the level of cultural competence needed in order to avoid translation errors by correlating cultural translation competence to vocabulary size. The results of our survey of Arabic professional translat...

This article examines the interrelationships among the text’s major themes: violence, dissimulation and delirium, at both the level of nation and also of family and individual. The dysfunctional character of the Loudono family is reflected in the plight of the nation: while Agustina is the chief victim of her father’s violent outbursts, so the nati...

This article traces the inscription of Deleuzian concepts on the texture and style of El vuelo de la reina. ‹Becomings’ and ‹lines of flight’ condition a text notable not for its intellectual ideas but for its portrayal of multiple sensations and intensities: here Martínez is the writer of vitality rather than the writer of textuality as he was in...

This article considers the conjunction between postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, and magical realism. The colonial legacy of Colombia provides for the opposition between timeless female values and the chronological urgency and linear motion of masculine technology. The prostitute is the 'other of the other', representing ambivalence and con...

Pedro Ara, Eva's embalmer, is the author of an enigmatic text, Eva Perón: la verdadera historia contada por el médico que preservó su cuerpo (1996), which focuses to a large extent on the writer himself rather than on his subject. It offers a remarkable illustration of how written language escapes authorial intention and control. The text is purpor...

An important aspect of postmodern literary practice is the different meanings given to such concepts as 'truth', 'essence', and 'authenticity'. New Historical writing questions the validity of truth claims about the past, which it seeks to reinvent as transient fiction rather than to recover as solid fact. In "Santa Evita," Tomás Eloy Martínez focu...

Drawing on the assumptions of "translation studies," the article analyses from a literary perspective scientific texts (on geology, astronomy, astrology) written in the vernacular in thirteenth-century Castile. It concentrates first on the introduction to the "Lapidario" by Judah Mosca in order to show how texts such as this when treated as literar...